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2024-25 WHL Playoffs Game Thread

VIC takes a stranglehold on the series. Hicks has been unbelievably good for them, signing him as a BCHL free agent has been a total heist so far. I would absolutely love for VIC to face MH in the finals, because they didn't play any games in Victoria this year, and I want to watch McKenna live.
 
Hitmen are dominating the Blades so far. I expect (read: hope) the series to be done tonight or Friday Game 5 at the latest.

Speedy Creek drew blood from Medicine Hat so it'll be interesting to see how both teams respond.
 
macbowes said:
VIC takes a stranglehold on the series. Hicks has been unbelievably good for them, signing him as a BCHL free agent has been a total heist so far. I would absolutely love for VIC to face MH in the finals, because they didn't play any games in Victoria this year, and I want to watch McKenna live.
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See, I told you their goaltending would be fine.
 
macbowes said:
Haha, early goings, but so far so good!
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I believe I said it would be the greatest, most beautiful goaltending the world had ever seen. Even better than Lincoln, one person said. I said we would be winning so much, you'd get sick of winning. And I said, my hands are not tiny. That's fake news.

I was a bit surprised they went with Hicks, to be honest. To have relied on Kraus for the bulk of the season and then turn the playoffs over to Hicks is an interesting choice.
 
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macbowes said:
I'm going to the Royals game on Friday, should be a great game. For this to be a successful playoffs for the Royals, they need a minimum of 1 series win. They are a very deep team, and Reschny gives them the elite scorer they haven't had in a long time. Should be a fun series. I'm going to say the Royals win 4-1, going 3-0 at home.
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Well, they won the series 4-1, although game 5 was in TC, which I forgot about. Great playoffs so far. Most likely round 2 opponent is Spokane, which is going to be a really tough test. They have had our number all year.

Go Royals!
 
Hitmen are playing Lethbridge in the second round now. I was hoping it would set up so that Lethbridge and Medicine Hat would have to play each other first, but here we are.

I do feel the Hitmen are the better team on paper and they took the season series 6-2 but it's playoffs and anything can happen. I'm expecting a 6 or 7 game series and I have to know Med Hat is feeling good because of that.
 
Royals most likely playing an away series against Spokane for round 2. Really tough matchup, and they've had our number all year. Nice thing is, I assume it'll be a similar schedule to VIC v TC, where the series will go SPOx2, VIC x3, SPOx2, so game 5 will be in Victoria, instead of Spokane.
 
Thought VAN wold have more pushback. SPO topline could be their ticket to the MEM. Cristal has lucked out closing his time vs in KEL.
 
Portland got goalied tonight, but boy that second PG goal tonight … woof.

Gotta say: Junior hockey - especially playoff hockey - is just so much fun to watch.
 
macbowes said:
Royals most likely playing an away series against Spokane for round 2. Really tough matchup, and they've had our number all year. Nice thing is, I assume it'll be a similar schedule to VIC v TC, where the series will go SPOx2, VIC x3, SPOx2, so game 5 will be in Victoria, instead of Spokane.
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Royals 1 Spokane 2 season series with one of the 2 losses being in a shootout. Royals were the first team to stop the Catton Cristall juggernaut after the trade deadline. They have excellent big mobile D, equally excellent goaltending and depth is starting to peak. They have a chance. I'll be at all games in Victoria.
 
How did SEA get a 6 game series vs EVT? Gotta be the shortest rebuild time after an ALL IN run the previous year. Are they set up for a nice season next year? Must have been a HUGE sigh out of the SEA coach room last night. EVT / POR will do nice box office.
 
BE Friend said:
How did SEA get a 6 game series vs EVT? Gotta be the shortest rebuild time after an ALL IN run the previous year. Are they set up for a nice season next year? Must have been a HUGE sigh out of the SEA coach room last night. EVT / POR will do nice box office.
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Seattle was hot down the stretch. Scott Ratzlaff had a .929 save percentage once the calendar flipped over to 2025.
 
Second round series are all set, and Portland were the only lower seed to win in the first round.

Round 2:

Medicine Hat Tigers vs Prince Albert Raiders

Calgary Hitmen vs Lethbridge Hurricanes

Everett Silvertips vs Portland Winterhawks

Spokane Chiefs vs Victoria Royals
 
That was a strange game to watch. The Hitmen seemed listless. The Hurricanes just seemed to play a game. The crowd was non existent.
Can I just bring up the unsportsmanlike penalty on Marques? What was that? He was tripped exiting his zone in the wide open. Obvious penalty on the Hitmen you would think. Nope. Hitmen to the powerplay on an embellishment call. I am still scratching my head over that one. I wish I could watch a replay of it to see what I am missing.
A great result to start the series for Lethbridge.
Another observation is that Chadwick is just so good. His offensive numbers blow you away but he is an absolute rock and sets the tone for the rest of his teammates. You never have to worry about him.
 
Bocephus said:
That was a strange game to watch. The Hitmen seemed listless. The Hurricanes just seemed to play a game. The crowd was non existent.
Can I just bring up the unsportsmanlike penalty on Marques? What was that? He was tripped exiting his zone in the wide open. Obvious penalty on the Hitmen you would think. Nope. Hitmen to the powerplay on an embellishment call. I am still scratching my head over that one. I wish I could watch a replay of it to see what I am missing.
A great result to start the series for Lethbridge.
Another observation is that Chadwick is just so good. His offensive numbers blow you away but he is an absolute rock and sets the tone for the rest of his teammates. You never have to worry about him.
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Yeah, that game was a real stinker on the Hitmen side. Probably the worst game I've personally seen them play this year. I hope they play better tonight or else this is going to be a much shorter series than expected.

I also definitely thought the Marques penalty was odd because I was at least expecting both players to get a penalty but Marques was the only one going off. Nobody on the Lethbridge bench really made much of a fuss about it though.
 
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SpoolCat said:
Is victory plus working for anyone else?
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Yes on laptop - chrome and firefox. I originally poo-poo'd it before really exploring. When I found you can continue as GUEST without any signup, credit card, info harvesting BS .... these guys in Calgary are on the ball.
Stream is clean. Great add on for the league
On Hockey has EVERY hockey game you can imagine but without an ad blocker you can get walloped with popups and crap.
 
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